Building your first smolweb page
2026-03-01
A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text. [...]
fen2board for chess players
2026-01-26
A Python script to convert chess positions (FEN notation) and games (PGN format) into beautiful chessboard diagrams. [...]
A mailbox for Christmas
2025-12-18
Christmas is often the time when geeks get bombarded with technical questions from their loved ones. Last year, I gave my opinion on Gmail accounts and was asked what alternative to use for email. I was a bit stumped for an answer: ProtonMail or Tuta? But they regularly encourage users to switch to their paid service and use their other services (VPN, drive, password vault, etc.). What's more, standard email clients are not compatible. [...]
Preparing a new mail and xmpp service
2025-11-04
I will open a new mail and xmpp service for free, soon. [...]
Excited to announce writes.casa
2025-09-01
This is an anonymous, minimalist writing platform! [...]
The difference between "smolweb" and "small web"
2025-08-12
People often use these two terms interchangeably, but they actually point to different things. Both are reactions to the modern web's complexity and the dominance of big platforms, but they come at it from different angles. [...]